iOS 4.2 app update?
Hi,
I was wondering if Logos planned to release an iPad app update for the iOS 4.2 release due to come out next week. If so, would it include some major updates I imagine?
Any details that can be provided would be appreciated.
God Bless,
- Sumair
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I agree these changes are more than necessary and i am really excited to see them or not see them which is what "behind the scene" would mean.
We don't have a release planned specifically for iOS 4.2. Since the Logos app is a universal app and already supports iOS 4.0, it supports multitasking on iOS 4.2 on iPad.
Thanks Dave. Appreciate the info and prompt reply. If I may ask is there an idea of when the next release may come out and what features would be added?
- Sumair
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The timing of the release is discussed here: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/24487/193329.aspx#193329
Regarding features, as I understand it the main feature is the new display engine. As I understand it, this should be some significant improvements to offline use, though I suspect that much of the benefits will be behind the scenes. That is, the new display engine will allow Logos to develop new features in the future, though I haven't seen any mention in the forums that there'll be new features in the next version.
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Thanks Mark. Appreciate it!
- Sumair
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Has it been confirmed that v 1.5 will use the new display engine? I ask because I would have expected a change that significant to warrant a major version increment i.e. v. 2.0.
Putting http://community.logos.com/forums/p/12807/179058.aspx#179058 together with this http://community.logos.com/forums/p/24487/193329.aspx#193329 certainly gives the impression that 1.5 will feature the new engine. I suspect the lack of version number hike is that most the of the work is 'behind the scenes' work that will bring benefits soon, not immediately.
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Mark is very insightful.
Version 1.5 is focused on improved offline support. It will use the new display engine for offline resources.
YAY!
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I will second that YAY! I am looking forward to these coming changes.
Does that mean no highlighting and note taking? I really need highlighting and note taking!
Has anyone heard (or know) if we might get Library install from our installed Logos, giving non cloud items, and older resources (I really want my Barclay and DSB Old Testament available to my phone and future ipad). I know some companies allow you to install via itunes sync whatever files you want off your computer. I am not saying that I would want or expect the iOS app to support everything back to the original format but there has been a whole lot of items that people own that are in Libronix but will never have the chance to see the light of day as a Logos4 resource.
-Dan
PS:Could this problem be solved via a general migrator software that updated files to be in Logos4 format, or would that somehow contravene contracts since you are not selling it but only updating peoples owned copy...
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The issue here is a licencing problem rather than a technical problem right? ie Logos can only push stuff through to the iOS app if its within the bounds of the licencing agreement with each publisher. A way around if you want to read a book on iOS that isn't available is to print the book to PDF and then use an app like Goodreader.
That's my understanding. Presumably when the early contracts were drawn up, they were drawn up specifically for desktop not mobile devices.
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Yes but most of the contracts were drawn up for Windows Logos too... as I understand it people who own the books own them period (Logos has to pull them for sale we still own them). I know we have no right to move it to a new program.. but Logos is a platform... and Bob says the same display engine will be in iOS soon as in the mac/windows platforms. Saying we have no right to read our books on a less powerful portable computing device seems to me like saying, "The rights were for Libronix, it's no longer going to be readable in Logos 4". I do fully understand that Logos has no right to release Libronix files into Logos4 files because they no longer sell them (and I suppose a conversion program would be tantamount to that), but there should be nothing stopping Logos from implementing the readability of Libronix on iPad, the same way that if a LINUX version Logos ever came about you wouldn't have issues because these items are being licensed for the Logos engine. The problem of licenses for the iOS so far as I understand it is the cloud nature. because you are not depending on a customer's owned copy but a shared cloud copy with access for remote viewing by owners of that resource, which is a different kettle of fish.
-Dan
PS:I very well may be wrong and you may be right, but I think it's an access rather than platform issue for the above reasons.
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